18 year old, Rose Justice, is an American pilot during WWII. She is fascinated by the German’s “flying bombs” and the concept of taran. Taran is when a skilled pilot can maneuver their plane to send one of the flying bombs off its course. Rose attempts taran, but is captured by Nazis in the process. She is taken to a notorious women’s concentration camp, Ravensbruck, where she lives with Polish victims of Nazi human experimentation and Red Army prisoners of war. Rose discovers, Rabbits: Women who endured the worst kind of torture in the name of medical experimentation. In Rose Under Fire, Rose shares her stories of the brutality, abuse, and desperation of life in a concentration camp. Rose uses poetry to find strength and hope in the worst of times. “Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.” Will Rose and her friends survive the horrific circumstances of life in a concentration camp?
WWII. Fighter planes. Nazis. Bravery. Poetry
18 year old, Rose Justice, is an American pilot during WWII. She is fascinated by the German’s “flying bombs” and the concept of taran. Taran is when a skilled pilot can maneuver their plane to send one of the flying bombs off its course. Rose attempts taran, but is captured by Nazis in the process. She is taken to a notorious women’s concentration camp, Ravensbruck, where she lives with Polish victims of Nazi human experimentation and Red Army prisoners of war. Rose discovers, Rabbits: Women who endured the worst kind of torture in the name of medical experimentation. In Rose Under Fire, Rose shares her stories of the brutality, abuse, and desperation of life in a concentration camp. Rose uses poetry to find strength and hope in the worst of times. “Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.” Will Rose and her friends survive the horrific circumstances of life in a concentration camp?
Kim Clifford April 24, 2014